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New Lot Traits : Use Residential Rentals shared areas as Community Lots

Hi everyone ! 🤗

Over the last few days, I've been working on a project that seemed necessary to bring a little life to some of the residential lots I've built: using shared spaces as community lots, to give my residents access to a bar, cafe, or whatever, without going through a loading screen, while bringing a little more life to these spaces.

I know that LittleMsSam had already made a mod allowing you to always have NPCs on any lot, but what I also needed here was to have visitors, who would use the objects placed on the lot as expected. To this end, I created 5 traits:

🍵 Brewed Delights: the lot functions as a café (if there's an Espresso Bar) or a Thrift Shop (if there's a Bubble Tea stand). It's open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

🍕 Meals on the Go: the lot automatically hires stall vendors (up to 2 stalls) and/or a cafeteria server (using University's Cafeteria Station) for lunch and dinner.

🍸 Drinking Spot: the lot functions as a bar (if there is a bar in the shared spaces). This also includes karaoke if a machine is present. It's open from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m.

🧩 Fun Zone: the lot automatically brings in children and teenagers to enjoy the on-site facilities (outdoor or indoor games) from 10am (weekends)/5pm (weekdays) to 9pm.

🏥 Care Facility: this lot takes car of its tenants by offering them all the comforts they need on a daily basis: a catering services (using University's Cafeteria Station), care and visits from the loved ones.

🙌 Curious Visitors: the lot automatically brings in people to enjoy the on-site facilities from 9am to 9pm, and automatically hires stall vendors (up to 2 stalls) for lunch and dinner.

Additional stuff :

The traits are located under lot challenges. You need to configure them for each unit separately.

Those traits work on Residential Rentals and community lots. I had to modify all autonomies so that visitors only use objects in the shared areas.

Among visitors, neighbors living on the same lot are used to populate the shared areas, in addition to the other tasks they normally perform.

If the lot trait Private Dwelling is used, only NPCs will be included, and visitors will be limited to Sims from other units. I use this feature, for example, to have a bar in my hotel!

In the current configuration, I favor played sims for visitor groups (not for single visitors). I'll have to see how I adapt this, as it's the most relevant in my way of playing, but I could change this setting.

A Janitor NPC is included except for the Fun Zone, to clean up any leftover glasses and plates at the end of service. I wasn't able to limit them to the shared areas entirely, so they may also clean your active family's home.

The mod should require some expansions packs, at least For Rent, Get to Work, Get Together, University, High School Years.

At the moment, translated in French and Spanish only (it's very limited in terms of strings used)

Last update : 02/03/24 - Major improvements on autonomy + Compatibility with the new patch

⚠️ I removed the version number from the filename, make sure to delete the old one before using the new version ⚠️

> Download here < (SFS)

More information on the few altered tunings after the cut

List of altered tunings : I tried to limit myself, and in the future I plan to use the Lot 51 Core Library for most of them, but it seems at the moment the injection of static commodities doesn't work that well :

eat_to_clean_from_sit: to make visitors' dirty plates and glasses disappear like on a community lot - otherwise your lots would be a mess after 1 day! It doesn't work 100%, but it helps. As a side effect, this effect also applies to your sims if you have the lot trait, which means less dishes!

bubbleTeaCounter_PushOrderDrink_Autonomous & bubbleTeaCounter_PushOrderFood_Autonomous: to add the static commodity that makes visitors route to them when they are spawned on the lot. I doubt other mods affect those, so it should be ok!

Hi everyone!🦦

I'd forgotten to post this on Tumblr, but a few weeks ago I shared some lots for San Myshuno and Del Sol Valey, as well as the families who live there.

🗺️ For each lot, I specified the world, the neighborhood and the original lot it replaces. You can check the Sims Wiki to find the lot if needed (in most cases, with the lot size and the thumbnail you should be able to manage).

💡 All lots are playtested but I might have missed some issues. They use no CC, but all of them require almost all currently available packs.

🧩 For residential rentals, I listed the units with their names in my game and the number of rooms as those are reseted when installing them. I've also specified the Sims living there if applicable.

🦦 Some Residential Rentals use lots traits I created to make their shared areas act as community lots. You can grab the mod here.

👨‍👩‍👦 For the households, if they live on one of the lots listed (or a specific unit for residential rentals), this will be specified.

Some households are grouped together for sharing in the gallery (to maintain family ties), so you'll need to split them according to what's shown in the captures.

Pauline and her son Axel, and Youri live on one of my previous residential rental (Villas Vibrantes in Tartosa).

👤All my Sims come with multiple outfits - including 3 everyday outfits and a customized career one, multiple skills, preferences, a career, additional milestones and some other things set up if you use Lumpinou's amazing mods 🤗

Unfortunately, the gallery doesn't save the relationships between household members, so you might refer to the family dynamics and the milestones to set them up.

📌 Use my IA ID Down-In-Simsland to find the lots and the households on the gallery.